We have exhaustively covered the annual attempt by the enviro-whack community to assault the freedom grocery store owners and their customers (us!) to use plastic bags to take home our groceries. This notion is so extreme and impactful on people that it has never become law. That said, this year the legislation (contained in AB 1998) got further than it has in the past.

To be honest, that has been due to the greed of the California Grocers Association and its members. Under the current legislation that has been passed in the Assembly, but not the Senate, in addition to banning plastic grocery bags, there would also be a state-imposed free of at least five cents a bag (if you did the math, this turns into the collection of hundreds of millions of dollars annually) — but that money doesn’t go into some enviro-whack state program, it goes right into the pocket of grocery store owners (predominantly massive outfits such as Safeway Foods). It a very bad… Read More

This just in from our friends at U.S. Term Limits…

U.S. Term Limits praises Carly Fiorina for supporting term limits for Congress

August 24th, 2010, Fairfax, VA—Term limits advocates echoed agreement with Carly Fiorina, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, who announced her support for limiting Senate terms this past weekend. “Carly Fiorina has it exactly right when she proposes that Senators should only serve two terms. Our nation was intended to be a citizen government, not one run by professional politicians,” said U.S. Term Limits President Philip Blumel. Fiorina faces three-term incumbent Barbara Boxer, who was first elected in 1992. Boxer has been a steadfast opponent of term limits.… Read More

For the next three days, Democrats are reportedly going to hold online town hall meetings about the state’s budget. Here are ten questions that I’m guessing would NOT make it past the screeners:

1. You’ve known that the state had a $19 billion deficit since back in January, why did you just get around to agreeing on a plan this month?

2. On March 5, right after being sworn in as Speaker of the House, Speaker Perez told the Los Angeles Times that he would be making “huge, devastating, difficult decisions” over the “next fifteen days” to close the state’s deficit. What were those decisions and why weren’t they enough?

3. On March 16,… Read More

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In the San Francisco Chronicle this morning, there was a headline that caught my eye — Whitman softens stance on U.S. Healthcare Law.

What? Whitman is warming up to Obamacare? NO WAY.

Here is a section of the article where you can see the distinction that the reporter is trying to draw between the then vs. now answer:

FlashReport readers anxiously awaiting my post-convention write up will need to wait until tomorrow’s issue. As is often the case, because I am not only writing about the GOP confab, but was a participant in it, I get home not only totally spent (both emotionally and physically) – but I also had to get up in the wee hours to pull together our main page for today.

I will take a moment to share some broader observations about this event. First and foremost is that in talking to the delegates on hand, there is resolve in working to ensure that the GOP tide that is clearly sweeping the nation crash straight into California and sweep a lot of Democrats into the ocean. Meg Whitman delivered a great speech to enthusiastic delegates on Friday night and Carly Fiorina dazzled a large lunchtime crowd with her excoriation of Barbara Boxer. I had the handy FlashFlipCam at the lunch, so here is a great clip of Carly on fire….

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Several of our FR bloggers attended this weekends CA GOP confab in San Diego, California. Look for some post-script notes in the coming days. For my part I’ll start working on a comprehensive post-convention write-up, to run tomorrow or Tuesday. I’ll also work on trying to upload some video I took of some of our great candidates.

Later this week we will also be publishing our much-beloved "Winners and Losers of the Convention" column!

So, here is your chance for input. If you went to convention, drop me a note. What were your favorite parts? Who did you think had a particularly stellar weekend? Or maybe the opposite? Nominations for winners? losers? All of your input is confidential and you will not be mentioned. If you are uber-paranoid in the upper right hand corner of the site is a button to send us information anonymously.

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Today every member of the State Assembly will have a choice between freedom and big government. Today is the last day to vote on amendments for the regular session of the State Assembly. SB 810 is Senator Leno’s gigantic single payer health system that dismantles private insurance and gives control over you health to the State. It is worse than what was passed by Congress and will drive jobs and businesses out of state with new taxes.

Today I will propose an amendment that would replace this socialized health care scheme with language that would protect our freedom from Washington D.C. ’s health care plan the language is similar to Virginia ’s that is working its way through the… Read More